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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Eagling" data-source="post: 6128809" data-attributes="member: 6703609">Hello! Here's my pitch for &quot;Doctors &amp; Nurses, the role-playing game of television medical dramas&quot;.When this competition was announced I deliberately set out to write a game that hasn't been done hundreds of times before. I looked around for a genre that had all the hallmarks of an RPG setting, yet lacked a slew of games already. It had to be a defined setting that presented specific challenges. It had to cope with a variable number of players. It had to provide opportunities for co-operative and competitive play. And, most importantly, it had to be dramatic.A non-gamer friend of mine is a big fan of &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot;. It struck me that no-one seems to have written an RPG set in the genre of TV medical dramas, despite it fulfilling the criteria listed above. There are probably many reasons for this. Arguably the crossover between fans of such programmes and RPGs is very small. Also, Doctors &amp; Nurses is almost &quot;anti-D&amp;D&quot;: instead of an adventuring party hell-bent on killing everything in sight and stealing their swag, D&amp;N involves characters trying to cure those afflicted with injuries and diseases.The system is... er, simplistic. Embarrasingly so. My original idea was to simulate human physiology in a much more realistic way. Diagnosis and treatment would be far more nuanced. However, modelling the entirety of modern medicine simply wasn't possible in the time available. Like other entries it was devised and written during the 7 days of the competition.Thanks go to anyone taking the time to take a look at the game. Votes are obviously welcome, as is feedback.Thanks also to [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] for the competition. If nothing else, it's been an interesting exercise.Good luck to the other entrants. There are some interesting ideas here. I'm now going to work my way through them and submit my votes.Cheers,Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Eagling, post: 6128809, member: 6703609"] Hello! Here's my pitch for "Doctors & Nurses, the role-playing game of television medical dramas". When this competition was announced I deliberately set out to write a game that hasn't been done hundreds of times before. I looked around for a genre that had all the hallmarks of an RPG setting, yet lacked a slew of games already. It had to be a defined setting that presented specific challenges. It had to cope with a variable number of players. It had to provide opportunities for co-operative and competitive play. And, most importantly, it had to be dramatic. A non-gamer friend of mine is a big fan of "Grey's Anatomy". It struck me that no-one seems to have written an RPG set in the genre of TV medical dramas, despite it fulfilling the criteria listed above. There are probably many reasons for this. Arguably the crossover between fans of such programmes and RPGs is very small. Also, Doctors & Nurses is almost "anti-D&D": instead of an adventuring party hell-bent on killing everything in sight and stealing their swag, D&N involves characters trying to cure those afflicted with injuries and diseases. The system is... er, simplistic. Embarrasingly so. My original idea was to simulate human physiology in a much more realistic way. Diagnosis and treatment would be far more nuanced. However, modelling the entirety of modern medicine simply wasn't possible in the time available. Like other entries it was devised and written during the 7 days of the competition. Thanks go to anyone taking the time to take a look at the game. Votes are obviously welcome, as is feedback. Thanks also to [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] for the competition. If nothing else, it's been an interesting exercise. Good luck to the other entrants. There are some interesting ideas here. I'm now going to work my way through them and submit my votes. Cheers, Mike [/QUOTE]

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